Posted on 08/29/2014 5:56:17 PM PDT by Nachum
President Barack Obama's message to Russian President Vladimir Putin when traveling to Europe next week is to not "even think about messing around" with the Baltic states, the White House said Friday.
Obama is traveling to Europe next week for a meeting in Wales with other NATO leaders. He'll also make a stop in Estonia, where he will meet with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in an attempt to reassure allies amid burgeoning Russian aggression in Ukraine.
"The two stops are essentially part of the same effort to send a message to the Russians that their behavior is unacceptable," Charles Kupchan, the White House's senior director for European affairs, said in a conference call with reporters Friday afternoon.
"You have in Estonia a large Russian population, and therefore part of the message that the President will be sending is, we stand with you. Article 5 constitutes an ironclad guarantee of your security. Russia, don’t even think about messing around in Estonia or in any of the Baltic areas in the same way that you have been messing around in Ukraine."
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That is ridiculous, the U.S. still has massive NATO capabilities, and what difference does it make if the other 27 NATO nations have to face Russia before we can move in whatever it is that you think we should have there?
In the 1980s. The Germans would get beer delivered to them in the field, the French had the bar/canteen tent with them in the field, it is how europeans do it.
how many realize that in a lifespan we’ve gone from where troops performed the catering and the cleanup to where commercial establishments furnish KP and laundry.
Not a very appropriate response when dealing with the varsity.
Don't forget the media's role in this debacle.
Obama is a totally manufactured persona. We only know about him what he has told us. He had a non-event Senate and State Senate career. No one seemed to know him well. All the unknowns and shady goings on, no media curiosity. He could never have done it without their help.
Absolutely. They were not only complicit, they were a major force.
This is true. I did not mean that as any reflection on Freepers.
It was ALL directed at the state of the world, and this clown in the White House.
Thank goodness for Free Republic.
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